It's early days in the Liga De Futbol Prof and both Always Ready and Santa Cruz are still hoping for a flying start in order to set the tone for the season. Three points can make a big difference at this stage.
It's no vacation for neither Always Ready nor Santa Cruz as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Always Ready form and stats
Perfect Liga De Futbol Prof season at home so far for Always Ready 2 wins from 2 appearances.
Always Ready lost their last game at Millonarios after a 0-2 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Always Ready won a home game hosting The Strongest (4-1).
Everyone expects Always Ready to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found three games: two home wins, one draw and zero defeats. Always Ready have won with at least two goals margin two times in similar situations.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Real Potosi are coming to town in three days.
Early season league goal statistics from Always Ready's 2 home games: 5 goals, 1 conceded.
Santa Cruz form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Liga De Futbol Prof for Santa Cruz with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
Santa Cruz played 1-1 against San Jose in their previous match. Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Real Potosi's place.
As mentioned above, Santa Cruz drew the match against San Jose. Manager J. Peña brought on M. Saucedo to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played one away match before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with zero wins, one draw and zero defeats. zero games were lost by at least two goals margin.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Santa Cruz manager J. Peña as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Wilstermann.
It's early days yet, but Santa Cruz has scored 2 and conceded 3 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Sanguinetti 3 goals |  C. Arabe Pedraza 1 goals |  S. Galindo Suheiro 1 goals |
Always Ready missing players
Santa Cruz missing players
| Always Ready | Santa Cruz | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1 | 2.7 |
| 4.5 | 2 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 5.3 |
| 4 | 4.5 | 5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 49 | 19 | 14 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 2 | 22 |
| 23 | 10 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 35% | 50% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 100% | 56% |
- Santa Cruz has the most dropped points from leading position (7)